Here is a round-up previewing some most exciting local releases for the first half of 2020! Please note, this list is incomplete, but we do hope it reflects the wide array of titles on offer for the year.

FICTION

• The Paris Model by Alexandra Joel (January)
• The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld (February)
• The Tiniest House of Time by Sreedhevi Iyer (February)
• Fauna by Donna Mazza (February)
• Dental Tourism by Mark O'Flynn (February)
• Riptides by Kirsten Alexander (February)
• Melting Moments by Anna Goldsworthy (March)
• Desire Lines by Felicity Volk (March)
• Sweetness and Light by Liam Pieper (March)
• Below Deck by Sophie Hardcastle (March)
• We Were Never Friends by Margaret Bearman (March)
• Return Ticket by Jon Doust (March)
• Just An Ordinary Family by Fiona Lowe (March)
• Lost Love Song by Minnie Darke (March)
• The Cedar Tree by Nicole Alexander (March)
• Elephants with Headlights by Bem Le Hunte (April)
• Almost a Mirror by Kirsten Krauth (April)
• Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe (April)
• The Dickens Boy by Tom Keneally (April)
• Gulliver’s Wife by Lauren Chater (April)
• The Night-Side of the Country by Meaghan Delahunt (April)
• Small Mercies by Richard Anderson (April)
• The Deceptions by Suzanne Leal (April)
• Providence by Max Barry (April)
• The Wreck by Meg Keneally (April)
• Mammoth by Chris Flynn (April)
• Ghost Species by James Bradley (April)
• The Lost Jewels by Kirsty Manning (April)
• The Paris Secret by Natasha Lester (April)
• Dreams They Forgot by Emma Ashmere (April)
• Dirty Linen: Stories by Rachel Ward (April)
• Collisions by Liminal contributors (May)
• The Things She Owned by Katherine Arguile (May)
• The Speechwriter by Martin McKenzie-Murray (May)
• Gunk Baby by Jamie Marina Lau (May)
• Rise and Shine by Patrick Allington (June)
• The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott (June)
• Revenge by S.L. Lim (June)
• All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton (June)
• Smart Ovens for Lonely People by Elizabeth Tan (June)
• I Give my Marriage a Year by Holly Wainwright (First half of 2020)

DEBUT FICTION

• Maggie’s Going Nowhere by Rose Hartley (January)
• The Lost Summers of Driftwood by Vanessa McCausland (January)
• The Light After the War by Anita Abriel (February)
• Jane In Love by Rachel Givney (February)
• Cherry Beach by Laura McPhee-Browne (February)
• No Neat Endings by Dominic Carew (February)
• Wild, Fearless Chests by Mandy Beaumont (February)
• A Couple of Things Before the End by Sean O’Beirne (February)
• A New Name for the Colour Blue by Annette Marner (February)
• Shirl by Wayne Marshall (February)
• The Coconut Children by Vivian Pham (March)
• The Salt Madonna by Catherine Noske (March)
• The Origin of Me by Bernard Gallate (March)
• The Inland Sea by Madeleine Watts (March)
• Return to Dust by Dani Powell (April)
• The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams (April)
• The Octopus and I by Erin Hortle (April)
• The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay (April)
• The Adversary by Ronnie Scott (April)
• As Swallows Fly by L P McMahon (June)
• State Highway One by Sam Coley (June)
• The Spill by Imbi Neeme (June)

CRIME FICTION & TRUE CRIME

• In the Clearing by J. P. Pomare (January)
• Missing William Tyrrell by Caroline Overington (March)
• The Good Turn by Dervla McTiernan (March)
• Where the Truth Lies by Karina Kilmore (March)
• Cops, Drugs, Lawyer X and Me by Paul Dale (March)
• Gathering Dark by Candice Fox (March)
• The Brisbane Line by J P Powell (April)
• The Long Shadow by Anne Buist (May)
• Torched by Kimberley Starr (May)
• Lawyer X by Anthony Dowsley and Patrick Carlyon (June)
• The Serpent’s Skin by Erina Reddan (June)
• The Spiral by Iain Ryan (June)
• Searching for Spiderman by Ally Chumley (June)

NON-FICTION

• Dear Parents by Gabbie Stroud (February)
• The Medicine: A Doctor’s Notes by Karen Hitchcock (February)
• Corporate Power in Australia by Lindy Edwards (February)
• Ten Rogues by Peter Gross (February)
• So, You’re Having a Teenager by Sarah Macdonald and Cathy Wilcox (February)
• The Relationship is the Project edited by Jade Lillie (February)
• The Convent by Stuart Kells (March)
• Oil Under Troubled Water by Bernard Collaery (March)
• After the Count by Stephanie Convery (March)
• Contest for the Indo-Pacific by Rory Medcalf (March)
• Party Animals by Samantha Maiden (March)
• Australian Code Breakers by James Phelps (March)
• The Watermill by Arnold Zable (March)
• Plants for the People by Erin Lovell Verinder (March)
• When Galaxies Collide by Lisa Harvey-Smith (March)
• Starting Secondary School by Michael Carr-Gregg and Sharon Witt (March)
• Solved! by Andrew Wear (March)
• The Joy of Money by Kate McCallum & Julia Newbould (March)
• Man Raises Boy by Rob Sturrock (March)
• Phosphorescence by Julia Baird (April)
• Stranger than Kindness by Nick Cave (April)
• The Dragons and the Snakes by David Kilcullen (April)
• We Are Speaking in Code by Tanya Vavilova (April)
• The Killing Streets by Tanya Bretherton (April)
• Intrepide by Clem Gorman and Therese Gorman (April)
• A Survivor’s Guide to the New Age by Amal Awad (April)
• Body Count by Paddy Manning (May)
• Hidden Hand by Mareike Ohlberg & Clive Hamilton (May)
• Fathoms by Rebecca Giggs (May)
• The Trials of Portnoy by Patrick Mullins (June)
• Growing up Disabled in Australia edited by Carly Findlay (June)
• Carbon Club by Marian Wilkinson (June)
• War on Terror by Peter Cronau (June)
• Convict Valley by Mark Dunn (June)
• After Australia edited by Michael Mohammed Ahmad (June)
• Two-Week Wait by Luke Jackson, Kelly Jackson and Mara Wild (June)
• Living with the Anthropocene edited by Cameron Muir (June)

BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR

• Snakes and Ladders by Angela Williams (February)
• The Lotus Eaters by Emily Clements (February)
• Ten Doors Down by Robert Tickner (February)
• Truganini by Cassandra Pybus (March)
• She I Dare Not Name by Donna Ward (March)
• Blueberries by Ellena Savage (March)
• Displaced by John Kinsella (March)
• We Can’t Say We Didn’t Know by Sophie McNeill (March)
• Fire Country by Victor Steffensen (March)
• My Lucky Stroke by Sarah Brooker (March)
• A Dog Called Harry by Jill Baker (March)
• Growing Pineapples in the Outback by Rebecca Lister (March)
• The Lost Boy by Ayik Chut (March)
• I Choose Elena by Lucia Osborne-Crowley (March)
• A Bigger Picture by Malcolm Turnbull (April)
• Fourteen by Shannon Molloy (April)
• Friends and Rivals by Brenda Niall (April)
• Come: A Memoir by Rita Therese (April)
• Darkfall by Indigo Perry (April)
• Radio Girl by David Duffy (May)
• Under Fire by Nick Brodie (May)
• Daddy Cool by Darleen Bungey (May)
• Hysteria by Katerina Bryant (May)
• Top End Girl by Miranda Tapsell (May)
• The Powerbroker by Michael Gawenda (May)
• Black and Blue by Veronica Gorrie (June)
• Father of the Lost Boys by Yuot A Alaak (June)
• The Woman Who Sailed the World by Danielle Clode (June)

POETRY

• Towards the End by Ali Alizadeh (February)
• Of Memory and Furniture by Bron Bateman (February)
• A Kinder Sea by Felicity Plunkett (February)
• Harbour by Kate Llewellyn (February)
• Turbulence by Thuy On (March)
• Family Trees by Michael Farrell (March)
• Labour and Other Poems by Astrid Lorange (March)
• Late Murrumbidgee Poems by John Mukky Burke (March)
• Entries by Prithvi Varatharajan (March)
• Fire Front edited by Alison Whittaker (April)
• Homer Street by Laurie Duggan (April)
• Dead Bolt by Ella Jeffery (April)
• The Lactic Acid in the Calves of Your Despair by Ali Whitelock (April)
• Ask Me About the Future by Rebecca Jessen (April)
• Throat by Ellen van Neerven (May)
• Homeland Calling edited by Ellen Van Neerven (May)
• New and Selected Poems by J.S. Harry (May)
• The Thorn by Todd Turner (June)

COOKBOOKS

• Beatrix Bakes by Natalie Paull (March)
• New Feast by Greg Malouf & Lucy Malouf (March)
• The Hot Chicken Project by Aaron Turner (April)
• The Art of Cake by Alice Oehr (April)
• A Year of Simple Family Food by Julia Busittil Nishimura (May)

PICTURE BOOKS

• Coming Home to Country by Bronwyn Bancroft (February)
• Counting our Country by Jill Daniels (February)
• Izzy and Frank by Katrina Lehman & Sophie Beer (February)
• Cats Do Not Like Birthdays by Nicki Greenberg (February)
• The Wonderful Wisdom of Ants by Phillip Bunting (February)
• Brother Moon by Maree McCarthy Yoelu & Samantha Fry (March)
• I’ll Always Be Older Than You by Jane Godwin & Sara Acton (March)
• Some Brains by Nelly Thomas (March)
• The Artist by Alison Binks (March)
• What Colour is the Sea? by Katie Stewart (March)
• Monkey’s Tail by Alex Rance & Shane McG (March)
• There’s No Such Thing by Heidi McKinnon (April)
• Backyard Birds by Helen Milroy (April)

JUNIOR & MIDDLE FICTION

• The Champions of the Blade (Paladero, Book 4) by Steven Lochran (January)
• Jane Doe and the Key of All Souls (Jane Do, Book 2) by Jeremy Lachlan (February)
• Puppy Playtime! and Take Off! (Evie and Pog, Book 1 and 2) by Tania McCartney (February)
• The Ghost of Howlers Beach (The Butter O'Bryan Mysteries, Book 1) by Jackie French (March)
• The Threads of Magic by Alison Croggon (March)
• Red Day by Sandy Fussell (March)
• The Republic of Birds by Jessica Miller (March)
• Landing with Wings by Trace Balla (March)
• Scary Mary and the Stripe Spell (Monty’s Island, Book 1) by Emily Rodda & Lucinda Gifford (April)
• Snow White Rose Red and Other Tales of Kind Young Women by Kate Forsyth & Lorena Carrington (April)
• The Year the Maps Changed by Danielle Binks (April)
• Timmy the Ticked-Off Pony by Magda Szubanski (April)
• Ottilie Colter and the Withering World (Ottilie Colter, Book 3) by Rhiannon Williams (May)
• Battle Born (Elementals, Book 3) by Amie Kaufman (June)
• What Zola Did on Monday by Melina Marchetta (June)
• Fly on the Wall by Remy Lai (June)

YOUNG ADULT

• Oasis by Katya de Becerra (January)
• A New Kind of Everything by Richard Yaxley (February)
• The Girl with the Gold Bikini by Lisa Walker (February)
• Euphoria Kids by Alison Evans (February)
• This Vicious Cure (This Mortal Coil, Book 3) by Emily Suvada (February)
• How to Grow a Family Tree by Eliza Henry-Jones (March)
• Only Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales (March)
• The Vanishing Deep by Astrid Scholte (March)
• Deep Water by Sarah Epstein (April)
• Please Don’t Hug Me by Kay Kerr (April)
• Taking Down Evelyn Tait by Poppy Nwosu (April)
• Peta Lyre’s Rating Normal by Anna Whateley (May)
• When it Drops by Alex Dyson (May)
• Metal Fish Falling Snow by Cath Moore (May)
• Aurora Burning (The Aurora Cycle, Book 2) by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (May)
• The F-Team by Rawah Arja (June)
• The End of the World is Bigger Than Love by Davina Bell (June)
• The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska (June)
• True Life (Lifel1k3, Book 3) by Jay Kristoff (June)

We’ll be publishing a similar list for the second half of the year in June, so stay tuned…